A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23. — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer. — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.” — M. Molly Backes Copy Share Image
I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
“I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. "You could ruin his life with that information," her friend reported triumphantly. The woman… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and… — Richard Seaver Copy Share Image
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It's only when you're at your lowest that you can put the most beauty into the words you write. — Tyler Draper Copy Share Image
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
“Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
“Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam” — Stephanie Skeem Copy Share Image
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Friends, books and a cherfful heard and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here” — William Mather Copy Share Image
After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
